What's your favourite bit of brutalist architecture?

[subaqua]

Quarry House isn't really Brutalist, but just a rather large building that sits ominously in its location, semi-jokingly referred to as the 'Kremlin' for a while when it was being built

Them again, when they were building the new Hospital in Wakefield (Pinderfields), the lift-shafts, or that's what they appeared to be, as they towered over the old buildings, looked like Eastern Bloc gun-towers

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Slip form cores is what we call them in construction. Generally where the lifts end up so not a bad guess

 

[Grant Fondo]

That's awful.

No it aint...have you ever been inside? Its a wonderful theatre, buildings are not just about what you see from the outside

 

[Grant Fondo]

Heres mine its Terragni..

 

[Dirk]

Its a wonderful theatre, buildings are not just about what you see from the outside

So why do they have to make them such a bloody eyesore?

 

[jefmcg]

So why do they have to make them such a bloody eyesore?

There used to be a joke that the best concert hall in the world was in Australia. The problem was the outside was in Sydney and the inside was in Melbourne.

Edit: and now I think of it, the Melbourne one is borderline brutalist

and the Sydney one definitely isn't

 

[jefmcg]

Heres mine its Terragni..

FTFY

 

[marinyork]

There is loads of it in Sheffield. Surprised no one has mentioned Park Hill flats which are currently being converted into trendy flats

Lots in Sheffield has gone. Norfolk Park's gone. Kelvin went years ago. Huge, huge numbers of arguably brutalist buildings have been reclad the last 5-10 years.

A new generation of insane supertall buildings that may be regarded as just as bad one day are being built every year.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

2 of my (geniune) favourites, that I grew up with

National Gallery of Victoria, were at the age of 6 I experienced my first bomb scare.

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And the Harold Holt Memorial pool, where I learnt to swim.

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Wasn't Harold Holt the Prime Minister, who ran into the sea' never to be seen again?

 

[jefmcg]

Wasn't Harold Holt the Prime Minister, who ran into the sea' never to be seen again?

Yup. I may have mentioned that before, once or twice ....

You know, urine isn't the worst thing in a pool (ignoring picnic bars which are a shut down event in any pool, but only happens in "hilarious" comedies from the seventies).

I learnt to swim at the Harold Holt Memorial Pool. The outdoor pool was fine, but the indoor pool was slimy. I always assumed that was fat from the sloughed off skin cells of swimmers dissolved in the tepid water.

A few dozen litres of sterile kiddy urine seems benign in comparison.

But then, naming a swimming pool after a recently drowned Prime Minister is probably the epitome of poor taste.

To be fair, Australia has form in this regard. In 1967, current Prime Minister Harold Holt went swimming in treacherous surf and disappeared. Apparently he was advised by his doctor not to swim due to a shoulder injury.

Amusing fact: I learnt to swim at the Harold Holt memorial swimming pool

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[Richard A Thackeray]

I remembered, due to re-reading the Bill Bryson book 'Down Under' again, recently

 

[Grant Fondo]

FTFY

I have run out of clever acronyms inlike you...do you like it or not.

 

[accountantpete]

My entry came down today

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LxauRvCyow

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Surprised that's not listed? Well wasn't listed (as opposed to listing, which it very obviously was after they shove a tonne of tnt up its chuff and lit the fuse) Ignoramuses.

 

[accountantpete]

Surprised that's not listed? Well wasn't listed (as opposed to listing, which it very obviously was after they shove a tonne of tnt up its chuff and lit the fuse) Ignoramuses.

They tried to but the local Police Force needed the sale money and Lidl needed a new supermarket.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Woo farking hoo, another Lidl...